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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash
 

 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

You can handle it

It will be messy, inconvenient, and tedious, yet it must be done. Fortunately, you can handle it.

It will take time and effort you’d rather be spending elsewhere. But instead of resenting the imposition and making it even worse, you can cheerfully get busy and get it done.

Life is not all marshmallows and cupcakes. There are important jobs to be completed, difficult obstacles to be overcome, challenges you cannot merely wish away.

Yet you have what it takes to do the work and solve the problems you’re faced with. And it is precisely by dealing with life’s difficulties that you enable yourself to enjoy life’s richness.

If everything was free and effortless all the time, how could you possibly find joy in any of it? With nothing painful or difficult to compare it to, you could not even recognize or experience comfort and enjoyment.

Whatever the challenge, whatever the effort, whatever the inconvenience, when it’s necessary to create a valuable outcome, you can handle it. The more you do so, the more goodness you invite into your world.

— Ralph Marston

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